famous jews(you didn't know?)

jewish Actors and Actresses:
Cary Grant -- Classical good looks and humor
Alicia Silverstone -- Actress - Clueless, The Crush, The Babysitter, Batman
Barbara Streisand -- Singer and actress winner of two Oscars, four Emmys, nine Golden Globes, and other awards.
Mandy Patinkin -- Emmy & Tony award-winning actor, 'Dr Jeffrey Geiger' on TV's Chicago Hope
Harrison Ford -- Actor: 'Raiders of the Lost Ark', 'Star Wars', ' American Graffiti', 'Witness', 'The Fugitive'
Gwyneth Paltrow -- Oscar winner
William Shatner -- Captain James T. Kirk on the original 'Star Trek'
Natalie Portman -- Actress, Queen Amidala in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
Al Jolson -- famous entertainer. Starred in the first talking movie
Winona Ryder -- Star of films like Heathers, Girl Interrupted, Little Women, Beetlejuice
Noah Wyle -- Actor, 'Dr John Carter' on TV's ER
Michael Landon -- Little Joe Cartwright on Bonanza
Mark Frankel -- Actor in 'Sisters' and 'Fortune Hunter'
Sarah Jessica Parker -- Acress in 'Sex and the City', 'LA Story'
Seth Green -- televison actor, Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, Family Guy.
Robert Downey, Jr. -- actor in 'Less Than Zero,' 'Chaplin,' 'Short Cuts.'
Paul Newman -- Academy Award winning actor and philanthropist

Musicians:
Itzhak Perlman -- Grammy-winning Violin soloist
Max Weinberg -- Drummer for Springstein and musical director for Conan O'Brien
Isaac Stern -- Violin virtuoso
George Gershwin -- American composer of many vocal and theatrical works written in collaboration with his older brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin.
Jascha Heifetz -- Violinist
Yehudi Menuhin -- Violinist
Herb Alpert -- Leader and trumpeter of Tijuana Brass
Stan Getz -- Jazz Tenor Sax player most famous for The Girl from Ipanema

Scientists:
Albert Einstein -- One of the most famous and influential scientists since Isaac Newton
Carl Sagan -- astronomer and popular science author; made book and TV series 'Cosmos'
Niels Bohr -- Nobel prize-winning Physicist: atomic structure
Roald Hoffmann -- Nobel prize winner in Chemistry: field of electronic structures
Fritz Haber -- winner of the Nobel Prize of Chemistry in 1918, for the synthesis of ammonia from its elements
Edward Teller -- Physicist, father of the hydrogen bomb
Leo Szilard -- Physicist, proved the possiblily of a nuclear chain reaction in 1933.
Jonas Salk -- Developed the first polio vaccine.

Business Professionals:
Milton Hershey -- Hershey's Chocolate founder
Michael Dell -- Founder of Dell Computer
Larry Ellison -- Founder and CEO of Oracle
Alan Greenspan -- Federal Reserve Chairman under Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush
Steve Ballmer -- CEO of Microsoft and the richest Jew in the world
Sir James Goldsmith -- financier and banker who amongst others has taken over Goodyear.
George Soros -- millionaire philanthropist who has donated millions to aid Eastern Europe.

Fashion designers:
Calvin Klein -- Famous Clothes Designer
Ralph Lauren -- (Ralph Lipshitz) world famous fashion designer
Levi Strauss -- Inventor of Blue Jeans
Kenneth Cole -- Fashion Designer who's married to Mario Cuomo's daughter

Comedians:
Jerry Lewis -- A comedian who teamed up with Dean Martin
Marcel Marceau -- The most famous mime in history
Jerry Seinfeld -- Stand up comedia, TV show Seinfeld, American Express commercials
Milton Berle -- Comedian who pioneered comedy/variety on television
Jack Benny -- Reknowned radio and TV comic

Directors and producers:
Steven Spielberg -- Director of films such as Saving Private Ryan & Schindler's List, Jurassic Park, E.T.,
Stanley Kubrick -- Director of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Spartacus
Mel Brooks -- Film director, producer, actor: Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein
Woody Allen -- Film Maker/Actor: Annie Hall, Bullets Over Broadway, Mighty Aphrodite, Antz
Roman Polanski -- Director, screenwriter, actor: Rosemary's Baby, Macbeth, Chinatown, Tess
Ben Stiller -- Director/Actor: Seinfeld, SNL, Reality Bites, Something About Mary, The Cable Guy
Aaron Spelling -- Produced Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place...
Oliver Stone -- Popular Director: The Doors, J.F.K., Heaven And Earth, Natural Born Killers

Artists:
Frida Kahlo -- Mexican artist famous for vivid, surrealist self-portraits. Married to Diego Rivera.
Marc Chagall -- Painter, designer and graphic artist
Modigliani -- Artist whose elongated faces are reminiscent of African masks
Camille Pissarro -- Father of Impressionism

a review of 'from beirut to jerusalem'

i found this book unintentionally.there was an Islamic program at my college and at the end of the program the ustaz opened a book gallery and i accidentally stumbled upon this book. Coincidently, i have been very eager to know more about Palestine issues lately and without thinking twice i straight away bought this book.
'from beirut to jerusalem' is a wonderful book written by Dr.Ang Swee Chai who claimed herself to be an exile from Singapore having a Britain citizenship.She was born in Penang,Malaysia and is an orthopedic surgeon practicing in Britain.She is a fellow of Royal College of Surgeon in England.
I fall in love with this book ever since i first saw its cover.Overall this book gave me an insight of what really is happening in the lost country of Palestine.
Eventhough Dr.Swee has embraced Christianity when she was studying in medical school(her parents are areligious),i salute her for not being bias and judgmental in her book.
She started her book with a brief description about herself.She admitted of having nasty thoughts of the Arabs and saw the Palestine Liberation Organization as terrorists to be loathed and feared before she herself sets her foot to Beirut in 1982 to treat war victims there.She humbly admitted that as a Christian they were taught that the children of Israel are the chosen people of God and the cruelty of the Nazis towards the Jews leads her to sympathize them even more.Until then,she said,she had never realize the existence of Palestinian refugees(but throughout the book she refused to use the word refugee* and used the term exile* instead).
At Beirut,she and few other volunteers from Britain worked under the Palestinian Red Crescent Society together with doctors from Palestine.
What amazed me about this book is that the writer's narration has given a very vivid and clear images of what has been happening at Palestine.
The Israeli has been a real monster and after the evacuation of PLO fighters from Beirut(due to Israeli and international pressure and since Israeli promissed to 'take care' of the people left behind) they became even more cruel towards the exiles(both Lebanese and Palestinian).
Luckily Gaza Hospital was still standing at that time and the injured people at least has a place for treatment eventhough the hospital lack of equipments and was in poor condition.
Soon after the evacuation of PLO fighters,the people in the refugee camps kept being attacked and murdered like an animal.Their bodies were even mutilated.
The Israeli then tried to conceal every evil doings of theirs by 'interrogating' on the masaccres launched in the Sabra-Shatila camps(they were Palestinian and Lebanese refugee camps) and they even tried to proof themselves innocent by acting as if they did not know who was behind it.
(to be continued)

renaissance

after being an on-and-off blogger,i finally know what i really want to blog about.i wanted to make my blog a useful one,not just an online diary telling people what madness and sadness i've gone through everyday.
after being in a period of ignorance or might as well be called as darkness era of my life,i decided to stay in there no more.i wanted to lead a useful life.living not just to empty another bowl of rice.
and lately,i am really into this palestine issues and i started googling about jewish,israel,palestine and related things.
so for now on,i decided to share whatever info and my opinions regarding those issues.

it is time for the uprising(intifada).

our renaissance.

ouch dat hurts

RMS sir:you.cervical spine injury.does it affect only upper limbs or both?

me:erm.it..

RMS sir:yes or no?juz say it,we hv no time to wait for u.

me:yy..yes..

RMS:affect only upper limbs?so u agree?

me:yes sir..

RMS:did u use your brain while answering it?y?is ur brain rotten?its decaying inside ur head huh??

me:.....

RMS:3 of u.draw the diagram of the spinal cord.now.

aahhh.i took yrs to draw it.
the simple diagram.

so dat's wut they meant by "posted under RMS?u're dead."

yea.i admit.my mistake answering with nothing about spinal cords knowledge in my brain.hv learnt it.sumwhere 2 yers back.huhu

felt terrible.

rotten brain?
ouch dat hurts!

orthopaedics postings..OT day

today was an OT day.We went to the Operation Theatre to see surgeries that were done by the doctors of our unit.Being posted under RMS(he is our chief of unit.i dun know his full name anyway,gona find out soon) gives me a lot of pressure.Everyone who was previously posted under him told us dat we're dead..or at least are gona be dead sooner or later.But luckily.until today we are still more or less,safe.he hasnt really shown us his fang and claws yet.last saturday was like
"this is what u have done after ur 7 days posted here???"
"are u expecting us to spoon feed u!"
dat was tolerable actually.
back to the OTs.
today was a case of subtrochanteric fracture with intertrochanteric extension(now i sounded like a text book).the patient's left femur was affected and in his leg Xray with AP view we could see 3 fracture lines.the main fracture was a reversed oblique.in that man's case surgery was done to reduce the #(open reduction) and internal fixation to fix the fractured bone in its place.first the intersegmental screw was put in,then the L plate along the shaft.Lastly cancellous and cortical screw was inserted.
RMS sir took a short instrumentation class for us afterwe watched the surgery.Wait2 let me recall.He taught us about the Dynamic Compression Plate and the Limited Contact Dynamic Compression Plate.The latter is the modification of the 1st to prevent avascular necrosis as it allows vascular formation.Then he showed a various screws.
Another case that we saw was the congenital talipes equines varus in which the child's foot was inverted.The deformity was 1st reduced then they put a cast on both of the child's leg upto the plantar.
Then we gave our attendance and hurrayy we went back before 12PM!!:)

that kind of ppl...

i really dont understand ppl who suddenly becomes cold.u know ppl with 'suddenly not talking' n 'not seeing u talking to them' attitude.when u dont even know what's the cause of them treating u like anything!it's juz so irritating n annoying.like u dont even know what u did wrong to them and u tried to be as nice as possible to them but in return u r treated like a culprit of something.really im sick of that kind of person.so superficial.when they feel like talking to u or when they have problems or when they wanted to borrow something from u,they r super nice to u,but the next second,u suddenly found out dat u r talking to a rock.they dun even look at ur face when u talked to them.they even tried as much possible to avoid seeing u.n the most bothering thing is u dont know why!
aetiology?blame it on genetics?hormonal changes?mood swing?yeah2 rite!like other ppl dont have genetic make up in them.like other ppl dont have hormonal changes!why need to show it to ppl who dont have anything to do with it?sometimes,this kind of ppl,i feel like shouting to them."WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!!"but really y do i bother?if they dont talk to u,dont talk to them.who r they to treat u that way..
if u are a nice person as in u never shouted to them or never ever once show ur anger to them doesnt mean dat they can simply treat u like anything.
really!im tired being nice to that kind of ppl.

u noe wut

I dont give a damn!